An Introduction to Central and Eastern Europe 3700-ISSC-ICE23-OG
Konwersatorium (KON) Semestr zimowy 2023/24

1. Introductory lecture

2. From East Europeans to Europeans: Does CEE have a common identity?

3. Eastern Europe’s remarkable diversity, it shifting borders, and its separateness from – and connections with – the West

4. Power of the Powerless: dissident voices against totalitarianism

5. Daily life in Eastern Europe Under Communism

6. The Communist Collapse and the emergence of the new Europe

7. History of relations between the European Union (EU) and Central and Eastern Europe

8. Poland and Hungary: two different strategies of transition

9. Democratisation in Post-Socialist Europe

10. Common European Heritage in Central Europe

11. The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia

12. Using and Negociating European Cultural Heritage

Attention:

Some topics may be discussed in more than one class.

Presentations, group discussions, consultations, analysis and interpretation of cultural texts